Tag: Sally Rooney
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Validation
It is always good to find someone who shares your own views about, well almost anything really, but inevitably I am thinking about books here. I have said before that I really don’t rate the writing of Sally Rooney and will certainly not be buying, or reading, her new book ‘Intermezzo’. The reviewer and critic […]
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Irish Writers
Why are there so many well-known and successful Irish writers, particularly over the last decade I pondered. In a recent (excellent) article I read about Colm Toibin, he acknowledges the energy and power that seem to resonate through Irish fiction and indeed somewhat dominates the Booker long list. Anne Enright and Anna Burns come to […]
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November 2021
I have had a reading crisis. It doesn’t happen very often but when it does it throws me somewhat. I started reading ‘Shuggie Bain’ by Douglas Stuart which is the recent winner of the Booker prize. The novel has a very autobiographical basis, is exceedingly well written and the description is intense and powerful, but […]